Hou Kun

Chapter 270 Murder
"However, the manager admitted it too quickly."

The empress explained to the emperor how she had stumbled upon the secret of the arhat bracelet, which had puzzled her at the time.So she asked Mr. Lanling's apprentice to carve two strings of hollow Buddha head beads for her.Coincidentally, the first day Suge took it back, she was robbed of her love by someone.

That day, after hearing that Suge's Buddha head bead was spotted by Manager Rhubarb, and he snatched it but was punished by the emperor, I realized something.

When the apprentice pointed to the portrait of Manager Rhubarb and nodded, she already understood seven or eight points.

So I specially carved eighteen arhats.

I went to Liulifang again, looking for old antiques to deliberately make old ones and wrap them in paste.She deliberately exposed the bead string to the concubine, scaring the concubine so that her face turned pale.

This has a [-]% certainty.

Old Dongtou was sitting in the pantry, and he lit a candle as it was late at night.

Squinting his eyes, he looked carefully at everything in the house, divided the imperial tea, thought about it, made a bag for Da Lingzi, and made a bag for Yurong, and wrote his name on it.Then he opened a bag of Da Lingzi and put a portion of Su Geai's white tea in it.Wrap it carefully and put it in the closet.A few girls can find their own tea by themselves.

Then he slowly brewed a pot of Lu'an Guapian for himself.

He took out his own purple sand pot, looked at the dark night outside the window of the small tea room, and tasted it silently.After brewing tea all my life, I made a good pot for myself, but I really didn’t have it.

He learned this skill while serving the late emperor.

The first emperor had a good temper. Earlier, he made tea either overheated, or the water was not good enough.But the first emperor never disliked it, and taught him personally when he had time.The first emperor loved tea, and rewarded him to drink it after brewing it. His craftsmanship has only improved a little bit.

Tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the rain is severe and thunderous.

Up to now, the palace gate has not been released yet.

Old Dongtou remembered how he was bullied when he entered the palace, and later, with his diligence and honesty, he was liked by the late emperor and stayed by his side.

later. . . .

There were footsteps outside the door, and the old Dongtou looked sad, but when people entered the room, they saw the old Dongtou who usually had a smiling face that could scoop up water.

The concubine called him the other day and gave him tea.

Finally, the concubine took out a small emerald green dragon pendant, put it on the table, and twisted herself into the room.He didn't say a word from beginning to end.

He had also seen the dragon pendant before, when the first emperor learned that the concubine was pregnant again, he quietly ordered someone to make a pair of dragon and phoenix pendants.I intend to reward the future princess or elder brother.It's a pity that it was not used later.

After all, it is because of him.

When he was cooking tea in front of the imperial court, Rhubarb loved to drink with him when he had nothing to do.They entered the palace together, and their friendship was neither close nor far away.But because he was in front of the imperial court, Manager Da Huang always looked at him differently.

Usually they drink and never talk about palace affairs.After all, each is their own master, since the imperial concubine entered the palace, the emperor and empress have become resentful spouses.

He was drunk this time.At that time, the imperial concubine had just become pregnant for the second time, and this matter was regarded as a secret in front of the imperial court, but people in the imperial court were very tight-lipped, and outsiders couldn't find out at all.

Then something happened to the first emperor.It was also very soon, the imperial concubine's baby was not saved, and during the national funeral, coupled with the empress dowager's impatience with the concubine, the concubine endured this matter and quietly let Lanxi take care of it.

He was vaguely uneasy.Always thought it had something to do with him.

That day the concubine suddenly offered him tea and revealed the dragon pendant, so he understood.

The emperor treated Lao Dong pretty well, but the old man who was in front of the late emperor, and later served the queen mother for so many years, was naturally somewhat respectable.The more polite the emperor treated him, the more ashamed and flustered old Dong became.

Old Dong An quietly kowtowed to the masters.The queen answered whatever she asked.

"...The slave knew that there was something wrong in it, but he didn't dare to ask more questions, and he couldn't find out. These years, the slave didn't drink alcohol for this reason. The slave has always felt ashamed in his heart! Let me ask Mr. Huang face to face today, did the servant say something that shouldn't be said after drinking that day?"

Manager Rhubarb is extremely regretful at this moment.He even scolded himself for being stupid.The queen is all defrauding him!If he refused to admit it at that time, he could refuse to admit it.

But he was smart enough to think that the queen had already got the evidence, so he took it all on himself first.If you saved the queen mother, you said you saved yourself.

But now, no matter how he grabs him, this matter has to be implicated in the Queen Mother.

The melon field is under the plum, the queen mother can't push it clean this time.

At this moment, he can only bite the bullet and refuse to admit it.

After the emperor heard it, he felt his mouth became more parched, and he picked up the ginseng soup on the side and drank a few more gulps.

His heart aches very much.

Ama seems to prefer the second child, but to him, he is also a rare loving father.

Or he didn't know it, but in his heart he always regarded the late emperor as Batulu, his god.

Even if the first emperor hesitated to change the reserve, everything he did was in exchange for the approval of the first emperor.

Now, knowing the truth, he suffered even more.

How could a little steward in the queen's palace commit such a big treason case of regicide?The calculations are meticulous and thorough, and without anyone's backing, even rhubarb's bracelets can't be imitated.

Whether it is killing the king or murdering the pregnant concubine, only the Queen Mother herself can be asked.

The emperor felt a deep regret in his heart.

Rather than murdering the first emperor, he would rather compete with his second son. He never felt that he was inferior to Guanglu.

How could he lose to Guanglu? It's just ridiculous.

But he can no longer prove it now.

I thought that the first emperor was busy with government affairs and was exhausted.But it turned out that the great position he got came from such a despicable plan.

Old Dong looked at Rhubarb calmly, and asked a question over and over again, "Did Old Dong slip up after drinking? He told you about the imperial concubine's pregnancy?"

Da Huang first denied it, absolutely not, and later, he no longer dared to look directly at Old Dong, and bowed his head in silence.

After Old Dong asked the last time, he fell limply on the ground.

The queen noticed something was wrong, and hurriedly asked someone to tell the imperial physician, but the old Dong stopped him softly, "Your Majesty, I took the medicine when I came here. This servant is going to serve the late emperor, and this servant has learned a few tea techniques in recent years." , this slave misses the late Emperor..."

The emperor watched the old Dong die, and stared at the queen mother with red eyes.

"Please return the Empress Dowager to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to take care of her. You don't have to come out and worry about my harem anymore."

The queen mother said helplessly, "The emperor..."

Someone came up to ask the Queen Mother to get up, Concubine Kang saw that the situation changed suddenly, but the Queen Mother couldn't stand up anymore.

Everyone in the former palace knew that the Queen Mother had a hard life, so she had to be more determined.That's right, being left out in the cold by the first emperor for so many years, it wasn't until his son ascended the throne that he really gained power, so he controlled the harem and refused to let go.

Only now did I know that the Queen Mother is such a cruel person.Killing two birds with one stone, except for the first emperor and the concubine, who supported their son to inherit the throne, few people in the harem could do such courage and ruthlessness.

The Empress Dowager got up slowly, brushed away the palace servant's hand, said "trash" with a sullen face, and went out steadily without looking at the emperor.I don't know whether that trash refers to the manager of rhubarb or the emperor.

The empress breathed a sigh of relief, plotting against the former empress, even though the emperor was forced by affection, he was still willing to maintain a superficial mother-child relationship with her, murdering the late emperor, carrying this bad name, the empress dowager may not end well.

The emperor ordered people to bring the two children, and brought the jade plate to check again. Sure enough, the sleeping boy was Concubine Ning's child.He also ordered people to interrogate the midwife, and naturally everything came to light.

Concubine Kang finally waited for the result, she kept crying happily, hugged the little elder brother to find the imperial doctor, learned that the little elder brother was fine, but she was afraid that the child would cry, so she poured a soothing decoction, and waited for the medicine to wear off. Naturally, he woke up, so he was relieved, asked the will, and carried it to Concubine Ning to see.

After dealing with these, the sky is almost dawn.

The emperor was sitting very tired, and he didn't have the mind to ask the queen.

The two of them sat dryly in the warm pavilion, listening to the sound of the rain gradually diminishing, and watching the line of fish-belly white on the roof of the hall gradually brighten, with traces of white light coming in through the window lattice.

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The queen mother has received the box lunch, what will the queen do next?
(End of this chapter)